Diccionario Akal/Grove de la Música

In his latest book, Greil Marcus, arguably the most influential music critic of all time, offers his most impassioned and intense essay yet. Steering clear of official history--encyclopedia entries, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, classic success stories--Marcus brings to the forefront 10 essential songs that, for their influence and how they have resonated throughout the decades, have surpassed a milestone of pop music. This book includes brief biographies of the songs' writers and performers and captures the essence of each pop entry--everlasting yet at the same time fleeting....

"This is a short but dense novel that epitomizes postmodern writing in contemporary Venezuelan literature. Castañeda uses Bocaccio's and Cervantes' views on the novel to justify the mixing of many rhetoric conventions, enhancing the artificiality of literature in a text that parodies an interpretive essay but deviates onto different paths, some not quite successful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Las crónicas del Caribe se han hecho a través de las canciones, y eso lo sabe bien Leonardo Padura, quien le ha tomado el pulso a un género, el de la salsa, que ha sido discutido desde su propio nacimiento, a comienzos de los años 70. A través de la conversación con sus protagonistas, los músicos que lo acuñaron y los más representativos, el autor nos regala un bellísimo retrato de las trayectorias de personajes tan fascinantes como Mario Bauzá, Cachao López, Papo Lucca, Juan Luis Guerra, Rubén Blades, Willie Colón, Johnny Pacheco y Juan Formell; eso sí, con Celia Cruz y Tito...

Experience the exciting music of the marichi tradition! Lifelong mariachi performer and educator John Nieto joins Bob Phillips to provide authentic orchestral settings of familiar, traditional tunes for string orchestra alone, mariachi band alone, or string orchestra and mariachi band together. Trumpet and accompaniment books are available to provide optional parts for trumpet, guitar, guitarrn, vihuela, piano, and harp. Historical background and arrangement ideas are provided in the Teacher's Manual.